TY - GEN
T1 - A framework for contexual design and evaluation of health information technology
AU - Kuziemsky, Craig
AU - Kushniruk, Andre
N1 - Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Poor contextual fit is a significant cause of health information technology (HIT) implementation issues. While the need for better fit of HIT and context has been well described there is a shortcoming of approaches for how to do it. While the diversity of the contexts where HIT is used prevents us from designing HIT to fit all contexts, if we had better ways of understanding and modelling contexts we could design and evaluate HIT to better fit contexts of use. This paper addresses the above need by developing a framework consisting of a set of terminology and concepts for modelling contextual structures and behaviours to support HIT design. The framework provides a way of binding contextual considerations to allow us to better model contexts as part of HIT design and evaluation.
AB - Poor contextual fit is a significant cause of health information technology (HIT) implementation issues. While the need for better fit of HIT and context has been well described there is a shortcoming of approaches for how to do it. While the diversity of the contexts where HIT is used prevents us from designing HIT to fit all contexts, if we had better ways of understanding and modelling contexts we could design and evaluate HIT to better fit contexts of use. This paper addresses the above need by developing a framework consisting of a set of terminology and concepts for modelling contextual structures and behaviours to support HIT design. The framework provides a way of binding contextual considerations to allow us to better model contexts as part of HIT design and evaluation.
KW - Context
KW - health information technology
KW - modelling
KW - structure
KW - behaviour
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84937469250&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-512-8-20
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-512-8-20
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
C2 - 25991094
AN - SCOPUS:84937469250
SN - 9781614995111
T3 - Studies in health technology and informatics
SP - 20
EP - 24
BT - Digital healthcare empowering Europeans
A2 - Corne, Ronald
A2 - Stoicu-Tivadar, Lăcrămioara
A2 - Hörbst, Alexander
A2 - Parra Calderón, Carlos Luis
A2 - Andersen, Stig Kjær
A2 - Hercigonja-Szekeres, Mira
PB - IOS Press
CY - Amsterdam, Netherlands
T2 - 26th Medical Informatics in Europe Conference, MIE 2015
Y2 - 27 May 2015 through 29 May 2015
ER -